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by David Kynaston
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
As in his highly acclaimed Austerity Britain, David Kynaston invokes an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices to drive his narrative of 1950s Britain. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and rationing gradually give way to relative abundance;...
Modernity Britain
Book Two: A Shake of the Dice, 1959-62
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
David Kynaston's history of post-war Britain has so far taken us from the radically reforming Labour governments of the late 1940s in Austerity Britain, through the growing prosperity of Family Britain's more placid 1950s, to the very cusp of the 1960s and the coming of a new Zeitgeist in Modernity...
Till Time's Last Sand
A History of the Bank of England 1694-2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The authorised history of the Bank of England by the bestselling David Kynaston, 'the most entertaining historian alive' (Spectator).
'Not an ordinary bank, but a great engine of state,' Adam Smith declared of the Bank of England as long ago as 1776. The Bank is now over 320 years old, and...
Leading Organizations
Ten Timeless Truths
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Every year, over 10,000 business books are published-and that's before you add in the hundreds of thousands of articles, blogs, and video lectures that are produced. Leaders can't possibly hope to digest it all, and writers increasingly sensationalize and spin their ideas in order to be noticed. The...
Pinstripe Empire
The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
An exciting history of the world's greatest baseball team from a former Yankees Public Relations Officer.
"A riveting and comprehensive history of the Yankees" – New York Times
Is there a sports team more synonymous with winning than the New York Yankees? The team of Ruth,...
by Ann Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Ann Bridge, besides being a famous author, was also, in her own words, "a person who frequently has, when awake, inexplicable 'knowings' of events taking place at a distance: and, in dreams, am informed, sometimes uncomfortably, of facts of which I can have no knowledge by normal means†?.
In...
by Justin Racz
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
They're kooky, they're crazy-50 Relatives Worse Than Yours is a nightmarish family reunion that will have you appreciating your own weird clan. There's the Family Newsletter Publisher who keeps you updated on how Uncle Carl's hip is doing; there's Holistic New Age Aunt, who knows Madonna from Kabbalah...
by Wendy Shanker
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Vibrant, vivacious, and gorgeous, Wendy Shanker is a fat girl who has simply had enough-enough of family, friends, co-workers, women's magazines, even strangers on the street all trying (and failing) to make her thin. Written in Wendy's wonderfully funny and candid voice, The Fat Girl's Guide to Life...
Robertson's Book of Firsts
Who Did What for the First Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Completely unlike any encyclopedia before it, The Book of Firsts is the product of decades of archiving and research from the incredible Patrick Robertson. For many years the proprietor of a stock photo archive and collector of all forms of ephemera, Robertson boasts a library that includes ads, clippings,...
by Sheila Hancock
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
'Well now, prove it, Sheila. As John would say, "Put your money where your mouth is." Be a depressed widow boring the arse off everyone, or get on with life. Your choice.'
In The Two of Us Sheila Hancock relived her life with John Thaw - years packed with love and family, work and...
How to Survive in Teaching
Without imploding, exploding or walking away
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Drawing on years of research and first-hand experience, How to Survive in Teaching offers support, advice and practical suggestions to help you and your colleagues stay flourishing, positive and most importantly, stay teaching!
Recent statistics show that not enough teachers are entering the...
Illegal Procedure
A Sports Agent Comes Clean on the Dirty Business of College Football
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
For fifteen years, sports agent Josh Luchs made illegal deals with numerous college athletes, from top-tier, nationally recognized phenoms to late-round draft picks. Flagrantly flaunting NCAA and NFL Players Association rules, he made no-interest loans to players in exchange for the promise of representation...
How to Cook Like a Man
A Memoir of Cookbook Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Daniel Duane was a good guy, but he wasn't what you might call domestic. Yet when he became a father, this avid outdoorsman was increasingly stuck at home, trying to do his part in the growing household. Inept at so many tasks associated with an infant daughter, he decided to take on dinner duty....
by Jennifer Crwys-Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
"I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black
domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society
in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal
opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve.
But if needs be, it is...